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rancher
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun rancher has 1 sense
- rancher(n = noun.person) - a person who owns or operates a ranch; is a kind of farmer, granger, husbandman, sodbuster
has particulars: grazier
Derived form verb ranch1
OXFORD DICTIONARY
rancher, n.
1 a person who farms on a ranch.
2 US a modern single-storey house.
1 a person who farms on a ranch.
2 US a modern single-storey house.
THESAURUS
rancher
Bauer, agriculturalist, agriculturist, agrologist, agronomist, breaker, breeder, broncobuster, buckaroo, cattleman, coffee-planter, collective farm worker, cow keeper, cowman, crofter, cropper, cultivator, dairy farmer, dairyman, dirt farmer, dry farmer, equerry, farm laborer, farmer, farmhand, farrier, gentleman farmer, granger, grazier, groom, grower, harvester, harvestman, haymaker, horseshoer, hostler, husbandman, kibbutznik, kolkhoznik, kulak, muzhik, peasant, peasant holder, picker, planter, plowboy, plowman, raiser, ranchero, ranchman, reaper, rustic, sharecropper, sheepman, sower, stableboy, stableman, stock raiser, stockbreeder, stockkeeper, stockman, tamer, tea-planter, tenant farmer, tiller, trainer, tree farmer, truck farmer, yeoman
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